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[Pow]

Season #1(1966-'67)
(1.)City On the Edge of Forever.
(2.)The Menagerie,Parts 1 & 2.
(3.)Space Seed.
(4.)Balance of Terror.
(5.)The Devil in the Dark.
(6.)Where no Man Has Gone Before.
(7.)The Galileo Seven.
(8.)Shore Leave.
(9.)Charlie X.
(10.)A Taste of Armageddon.


Season #2(1967-'68)
(1.)Journey to Babel.
(2.)Amok Time.
(3.)The Ultimate Computer.
(4.)The Doomsday Machine.
(5.)The Changeling.
(6.)Mirror,Mirror.
(7.)The Trouble with Tribbles.
(8.)Metamorphosis
(9.)The Immunity Syndrome
(10.)Who Mourns for Adonais?


Season #3(1968-'69)Let's be honest,this season did not have 10 great episodes.

The Tholian Web & Spectre of the Gun were the best.

[orzel-w]

Try this to get rid of the smiley face, Pow (unless you're just attached to it). (Quote me to see.)

Season #2(1967-'68)
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[Bud Brewster]

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Is there no man on Earth who has the wisdom and innocence of a child?
~ The Space Children (1958)

[orzel-w]

Ooh... What'll they think of next?
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[orzel-w]

For my money, it's hard to top some of the scenes in The Menagerie. Here's my list:

1. The female "#1" played by Majel Barrett. Although she reappeared in the rest of the series as Nurse Chapel, I always thought she looked better with her long black locks, in a position of authority.

2. The laser cannon blasting away at the elevator door, ramping up in power as it continued. ("More lightning, Igor!") Each time the power increased, the sound of the cannon would follow suit and some additional material would be blasted away from the target. In later episodes they would simply fire the ship's phasers from orbit to destroy anything on the surface. But that never had the same visual impact as the cannon in this episode.

3. The early hand lasers. As with the cannon, they would change settings to increase the power and continue blasting away. We rarely saw this later with the hand phasers.

Cheap thrills.
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[Gord Green]

I always felt that "The Menagerie" was the closest to the "Forbidden Planet" homage in the whole series.

The second pilot "Where no Man Has Gone Before" had a totaly different feel to it.
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[orzel-w]

It was interesting that both "pilot" episodes dealt with mental powers. In "The Cage" ("Menagerie") they were wielded by aliens using mind control, whereas in "Where No Man Has Gone Before" humans possessed the power, but as telekinesis.
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[Krel]

[Custer]

It's interesting that the "Roddenberry Vault" collection, with its twelve classic, fan-favourite episodes, does include:

Space Seed
The Devil in the Dark
The City on the Edge of Forever
Metamorphosis
Who Mourns for Adonais?
Mirror, Mirror
The Trouble With Tribbles

It also includes The Corbomite Maneuver, Arena, This Side of Paradise, Operation: Annihilate!, and Return to Tomorrow - not that they are necessarily superior to other episodes, but "chosen for their relevance to the previously unseen material" included.

[mach7]

The 1st season was probably the best. I'm surprised no one has mentioned "Return of the Archons" Its one I always rewatch.

Great story, very well directed and acted. For me its the one I always come back and watch.

Another great 1st season episode is "The Squire Of Gothos"
That story has many layers to it.

And of course "Tomorrow is Yesterday" F-104s!

[johnnybear]

I always loved Arena, The shock reveal of the alien Gorn scared the beejesus out of me back in 72 when I first saw the episode and it still gets me every time I get a rewatch!
JB

[Bud Brewster]